Age-Specific Changes in Reproductive Effort and Terminal Investment in Female Nile Lechwe

Reproductive effort should negatively correlate with reproductive value, yielding a pattern of increased effort with age. According to the terminal investment hypothesis, females near the end of their reproductive life span should devote more resources to reproduction than those near the start of th...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of mammalogy 2009-02, Vol.90 (1), p.40-46
Hauptverfasser:	Bercovitch, Fred B., Loomis, Caroline Pitt, Rieches, Randy G.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Age Animal ethology Animal reproduction Biological and medical sciences Calves Dams Daughters Environmental conditions Evolution Feature s Female animals Females Fertility Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Kobus Life history Males Mammalia Maternal age Megaceros Mortality Mothers Neonates Parturition Progeny Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Reproduction Reproductive effort Reproductive success residual reproductive value Sex ratio sex ratio adjustment sexual selection Sons Survival Ungulates Vertebrata Vertebrates: general zoology, morphology, phylogeny, systematics, cytogenetics, geographical distribution
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